It’s Saturday afternoon while I’m heading from Milan on the metro towards the “Breda” in Sesto San Giovanni.
While I read on my cell phone the latest on what could turn out to be yet another scandal in Italian football (better not to comment on the matter, including the ways in which it is coming out), the automatic voice of the means of transport, which I usually use when traveling around the capital of Lombardy, reminds me that the time has come to get off. The Bignami Nord stop is my terminus, a few hundred meters from this the sign indicates the passage from Milan to Sesto.
I see several children with bags who, accompanied by their parents, are preparing to go and play their match. Our thoughts immediately go to those who would have willingly gone to the stadium with their father today. Clearly I have no idea of the number, maybe none, but the fact of seeing the C play from Friday to Monday is something that makes me quite angry.
Far from family football: the reality is that unfortunately television rights have now prevailed in this category too.
Once I entered the stadium, while sitting on a bench I was preparing my camera, I happened to listen to the “heroic deeds” that two federal inspectors of the FIGC told each other: you know those who in the sports judge’s bulletins give fines to the right and left for “offensive chants” or “throwing a smoke bomb without consequences”, that’s them.
This scene wasn’t enough, which in itself would also make you laugh if there wasn’t anything to cry about, a few minutes later as I approached the corner of the house, I noticed at the entrance, among the police, a person intent on the camera film every fan who is entering the sector. There are probably those who want to have material ready if necessary to be able to issue measures (unfortunately the people of Sesto know something about this, see playout with Seregno in 2022).
o0But let’s get to what interests us most.
I hadn’t seen the home team at work since 2019, when the Biancoceleste team was still playing in Serie D. After almost four years I find it has grown a lot, demonstrating a job well done.
The banner that encloses the entire ultras group has a nice aesthetic impact, although it is displayed upside down as a protest against the club, accused in the summer of having downsized a team that last year had even reached the point of dreaming of Serie B, only to see themselves eliminated in the playoffs at the hands of Vicenza.
Usually when there are these peaks in results there is a tendency to get on the bandwagon, and then give up at the first difficulties: in this case one gets the impression that last season’s wake has left positive consequences. In fact, I also notice several young guys in the corners: naturally, since Sesto is attached to Milan, for many of these it is inevitable that it is more attractive to go to San Siro. Yet over the years, even the worst ones after the bankruptcy and restart from the Promotion, the local ultras have never failed to make their presence known.
Even today they occupy the central part of the curve, their cheering is continuous for almost the entire match. The rhythm is marked by a drum which allows for nice clapping, in addition to the fact that two flags are waved continuously.
The chorus “magica Pro Sesto, one, two, three, four” is very beautiful and will be repeated several times.
Among the chants carried out there were also several in favor of those banned and some for the friends of Vercelli.
The Paduans arrive tenth of the first half, just in time to see a penalty awarded and then missed by their team.
Present in about 200 units they will struggle a bit to grow, making an excellent cheer in the part that goes from the net with which they take the lead at the end of the first half.
The glance is good, the “patches” are beautiful.
Some choruses are marked with a beautiful intensity, demonstrating that their potential would be important.
However, I must note that they lack a bit of continuity, in fact in the second half they drop to a distance, a bit like their team who will nullify the advantage by being caught ten minutes from time.
A result that will never be unlocked again until the end and which will see the disappointment of the Paduans.
The red and white players are however encouraged by their fans once they are under the sector.
The championship is still long and still to be experienced, certainly given the last few seasons the hope of the whole environment is to be promoted while avoiding the playoffs.
However, the greeting from the Biancoceleste team was very nice as it went under the curve to jump and sing with the fans, a sign of a beautiful synergy between the two components: after all, a comeback draw with the league leaders isn’t bad.
I go home with a beautiful sight in my eyes.
Demonstrating that, despite all the difficulties encountered today in going to the stadium between impossible times, bans, domination of television and so on and so forth, being present on those steps remains the best choice.
Matteo Biondi
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2023-10-15 15:00:00
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